SearchBlox is a great solution for website search. A number of our customers have implemented search functionality on public websites using SearchBlox.
One of the questions that we are often asked is – how does SearchBlox compare with Google Mini for website search? Here is a detailed comparison of features:
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SearchBlox |
Google Mini |
| Number of documents supported |
Unlimited |
300,000 |
| Price |
US$5,000 per server |
Price per server
50k documents – $2,990
100k documents – $3,990
200k documents – $6,990
300k documents – $9,990 |
| Support |
Included in the license cost |
2 years of support included in appliance price.
Requires purchase of new appliance after 2 years |
| Open standards |
Yes. Based on Apache Lucene. |
No |
| Search Results |
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| Relevance ranking |
Yes |
Yes |
| Sort by date |
Yes |
Yes |
| Sort by alphabetical order |
Yes. On document title. |
No |
| Sort Order |
Ascending or descending
for date, relevance and alphabetical sort |
Ascending or descending for date sort |
| Query terms highlighted |
Yes |
Yes |
| Dynamic summaries |
Yes |
Yes |
| Highlighting PDF hits |
Yes |
No |
| Promote specific pages in search results |
Yes |
Yes |
| Crawling |
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| Crawl third party websites |
Yes |
No |
| Index multiple files types including HTML, PDF and Office |
Yes |
Yes |
| Languages suported |
37 |
28 |
| Filter by file types, meta tags, websites |
Yes |
Yes |
| Crawl password protected content |
Yes |
Yes |
| Form-based authentication |
Yes |
No |
| Duplicate removal |
Yes |
No |
| Proxy server support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Administration |
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| Web-based Admin Console |
Yes |
Yes |
| Remote management |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multiple Collections |
Yes |
Yes |
| Add/Delete/Update specific URLs in real-time |
Yes |
No |
| Search results XSLT customization |
Yes |
Yes |
| Web based reports |
Yes |
Yes |
| Full replication/mirroring |
Yes |
No |
| Integration |
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| XML Search results output |
Yes |
Yes |
| Indexing API |
Yes |
No |
| Search Queries |
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| Spelling Suggestions |
Yes |
Yes |
| Stemming |
Yes |
No |
| Enable/disable stemming |
Yes |
No |
| Customize stopwords |
Yes |
No |
| Wildcards support |
Yes |
No |
| Concept Search (Clustering) |
Yes |
No |
| Search across collections |
Yes |
Yes |
| Advanced search |
Yes |
Yes |
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